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Jared is an attorney in the Firm’s Litigation Department. He focuses his practice on litigation involving business, employment, tort, insurance, professional liability, construction and fiduciary/estate disputes, and has ...

In many cases, defendants facing class actions where the plaintiffs’ damages are statutorily prescribed have been able to derail the class action by offering the named plaintiff the full amount of statutory damages that plaintiff could recover on his or her “best day in court” by way of an Offer of Judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 68. The offer must have been made ...

Jury trials in civil litigation are inherently unpredictable – a reason why over 90 percent of civil cases settle before, or during trial. With respect to trust and estate litigation, i.e., litigation typically brought by a disgruntled (often disinherited) “would be” beneficiary challenging the validity of a trust, will or other estate planning instrument, these issues are ...